The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-13
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Older than the eldest children Of his frst vita
= .utiful and accomplished. the ambition doe
her credit
One sees great deal of the social influences 4
women here in New York. At the opera houas.
the great show place for fashionable women. q
is interesting to note examples Of this sort One
sees the millionaire banker Mr.. j. W. Drexel.
in his box trifie bored and glad to receive
male caller to chat with. Possibly it ia for his
wife that he is there, and also that she comes
for the sake Of her daughters, robust pair q
sisters, rosy almost to rusticity, who have just
como out in society, and who are taken home at
IL o'clock sharp, even though it be in the middle
of an opera. Across the house one sees a great
editor full OF care and business always seated
behind his wife and apt to have brought gem
tleman along with him to while away the time
neutrality-suspicious. the most so Of any
woman who regularly attends the opera
house. Look at the box of the Italiaa
stock operator mir. Morosni He and hid
wife are in the back seat but in front of both il
his beautiful daughter. The arrangement tells
its own story. It was tho gossip of Newport
aud Narragansett Pier last summer that Sem
ator Sprague's new and young wife has wrought
a great change in him. He had seemed =
careless and almost discouraged man when he
married the second time Her influence is en-
tirely domestic and now he is found always a
home and always the center OF pretty fresido
picture
Doctors often urge widowed men beyond the
measure easily understood by those who have
heard the theory. This squirting on to new
ambitions that such men get is one OF the
penalties they pay, but il is better to have =
pushing helpmate than q drag ike Abraham
Lincoln, like the wife of great Republicans
editor lcng since dead. or like the spouse Of Z
national hero not long dead, whose home life the
public knows nothing of or it would respect his
memory all the more.
1t is interesting to the qualities that distin-
puish a proat man echoed and ehad0wed forth u
his children. The Indianapolis Journal the other
day told of the warli&e conduct Of Minnie, the
daughter of General Sherman. who is now .
Mrs. Thackera, and who, when she was at Q
Catholic school in Indiana, in 1864. fought lit
tie rebel schoolmate who insulted the flag. She
knocked her out with blow. That recalls .
somewhat similar episode in the life of the
daughter Of General Fitzpatrick. Two or three
years before he died, he and visitor were 70.
clining in the shade of little grove near his
home, in Deckertown, N. j.. when his little
daughter suddenly appeared at q distance,
shyly looking toward them and apparently IN
| decided whether'to come nearer or not.
Come here.' he said, land let me introduce
you to this gentleman. Sir, this is my daughter,
She is in very deep disgrace, and her mother aud
| aunt won't have anything to do with her. In
fact, no nice person will have anything to do
with her; she is SO wicked. She has Just been
turned out of school. It is the most shocking
story you ever heard. We sent her up to Mount
| St. Vincent on the Hudson among all the incest
| little girls in the country, and she is SEM
back to us for misconduct. It seems that s6m0
| girl about twice as big as she has plagued het
and tormented her till she couldn't stand it any
| longer"
And here the Generals eyes twinkled and the
| little culprit began a broad smile as the General
continued. ''And SO one day she got her fathertl
mad up and she trounced that big girl in the
way she deserved and got sent homo for do
| ing it."
The General said that of course he was ex-
pected to be very severe about his child's diss
| grace, but that he wouldn't have been half se
proud of her if she had not done just what shS
| did. JULIAN RALPH.